the apostrophe engine | beta | Darren Wershler-Henry with Bill Kennedy

you are a deftly turned phrase, an etymological landscape, a home by the sea •

THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS AS ASSEMBLED BY DR. ZHIVAGO, OCULIST

INSTRUCTIONS • Step 1: Click an Element to view a poem and optionally click on Add to submit it to the reaction. Add as many Elements as you like. • Step 2: Choose the procedure to facilitate the reaction: dissolve stir heat dilute centrifuge • Step 3: Click REACT to create a new poem.

Monica Ong = new media (art+design)

Fallow (with Rebecca Givens). Spring 2007 Born Magazine

J. R. Carpenter || Luckysoap & Co.

CARNIVAL Steve McCaffery: 1967-75

"The roots of the typewriter are Augustan; its repetitive principle is the principle of the couplet enhanced by speed. The typewriter oracled a neoclassical futurism that emerged in the mid twentieth century as poeme concrète. This is part of that oracle."

Reggie Watts

on Vimeo

logolalia logolalia logolalia whee logolalia :: dan waber

PoetryFoundation.org: The Post Natural World

Gary Snyder: "...artists have a role in society, which is to contribute to the community — to the heart of the community."

David Hart

"Maybe I will be the last person on Earth to get an e-mail account, but that won't be a bad thing. "

Evelyn Lau

"Between sleeping and waking
in concrete made flesh
an early ear hears light approach
an early throat groans"

Charles Ducal, a Belgian pig farmer poet
on Poetry International Web

Please Plant This Book

Richard Brautigan published Please Plant This Book in the Spring of 1968. It consisted of eight packets of garden seeds, each printed with a poem, all gathered in a small folder.

nathalie stephens

No text is sacred. Nothing is ever for real. The earth shifts beneath our feet. We are walking in circles looking again and again at the same thing.

Kemeny Babineau

The late sixties and early seventies saw Suknaski produce work for at least ten concrete poetry chapbooks (including two anthologies) while publishing many titles by others (Dennis Lee, Stephen Scobie, bp Nichol, Earle Birney, and Sid Marty, to name a few) as well with his own Elfin Plot Press. He floated poems and magazines rolled up in Al Purdy’s cigar tubes down the North Saskatchewan River. He folded an issue of Elfin Plot into paper airplanes and had them dropped from an aircraft flying north out of Edmonton. He buried others on mountaintops, or left them on beaches melted into tablet-like candles abandoned for strangers: something to light them home. It was undoubtedly actions like these that prompted Douglas Barbour’s wry comment that Elfin Plot was “the most underground of underground magazines.” The output during this time was frenetic, sprawling, brilliant, compulsive and voluminous, especially considering his transitory lifestyle and constant poverty.

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